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B-roll supporting live shot for MAVEN reaching Mars. Jim Green gives a canned interview for the 09/19/2014 MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion liveshots. For complete transcript, click here. Sandra Cauffman gives a canned interview in Spanish for the 09/19/2014 MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion liveshots. Jim Garvin gives a canned interview for the 09/19/2014 MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion liveshots. For complete transcript, click here. Kelly Fast gives a canned interview for the 09/19/2014 MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion liveshots. For complete transcript, click here. The Mars Atmosphere Volatile Evolution mission, or MAVEN, is NASA's newest mission to Mars. After a 10 month journey, it's arriving at the Red Planet on Sunday, September 21, where it will study the planet's upper atmosphere. MAVEN will help determine why Mars has lost the majority of its atmosphere over the past four billion years, giving us information on how the Mars climate has evolved over time. This will also help us understand the evolution of other planets, including Earth. For More InformationSee [www.nasa.gov/maven](www.nasa.gov/maven) Related pages

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is quickly approaching Mars on a mission to study its upper atmosphere. When it arrives on September 21, 2014, MAVEN's winding journey from Earth will culminate with a dramatic engine burn, pulling the spacecraft into an elliptical orbit. For complete transcript, click here.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel. If you want to send a spacecraft from Earth to Mars, how would you get it there? You can't aim straight at the Red Planet, because it's moving around the Sun significantly slower than the Earth. Instead, you'll have to wait for up to 26 months for a launch window, then carefully aim at a moving target. In November, 2013, the controllers of NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft did just that. When MAVEN arrives, it will be the first spacecraft to study Mars's upper atmosphere in detail, helping scientists understand how Mars changed from a wet planet early in its history to the cold, dry world we see today. For More InformationSee [http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasas-maven-spacecraft-makes-final-preparations-for-mars](http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasas-maven-spacecraft-makes-final-preparations-for-mars) Related pages